Why the French defy America

The Daily Telegraph ^ | February 17, 2003 | Patrick Bishop

[cjsnc]

The real problem with the French is that anyone with any intelligence was beheaded during the revolution.

[P.O.E.]

I have a feeling it's similar to here in the 'States. In the big cities, you have the elitist (and whacko) lib enclaves.

Just like I don't believe everything I read in the press here, and think the heartland values are totally awesome, it's probably the same in the countryside in Europe, too.

I sometimes wonder if one of the big reasons the jihadists "hate us" is because they mostly perceive us via the degeneracy and lies they see and hear from our the media and demagogic Democrats with whom they sympathize.

[BunnySlippers]

I really love that phrase - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. It's the best thing to come out of this whole ordeal.

And to know that the term has reached their ears is sublime.

[A_perfect_lady]

Ever since, the French have seen the US as a potential Utopia, he says, and have reacted to its failure to conform with their desires with an exasperation that has often shaded into something like hatred.

You know, this could also describe their attitude toward Israel. When it was a socialist experiment, the French, I hear, were quite supportive. But THEN... the French have a real controlling, Mommie Dearest sort of thing going on, don't they? I have always thought of them as sort of facile and shallow, but now I'm wondering if there's a little more of a dark, nasty underlying ... something ... under there.

[Nick Danger]

the name basically means "School of Higher Learning."

You wrecked my joke.

[curmudgeonII]

What can you expect out of a nation that thinks Jerry Lewis is the greatest comedian ever?

[Barnacle]

It’s really nothing more complicated than simple vanity and jealousy. I’ve been to France twice and enjoyed it greatly. But, the crap they’ve been pulling really burns me behind. And, so I say to the French…

[A_perfect_lady]

N'achetez pas leurs produits.

Je n'acheterai jamais encore des françsaises, ni le fromage ni le vin. Il peuvent tout aller faire fautre! Donc la!

[Barnacle]

Protests against the Vietnam war? Hell,they started it

You could be on to something there.

[A_perfect_lady]

École des Hautes Études

So they actually have a school for haughty attitudes?

ROTFLMYKWO! That was the sweetest!! You ARE Danger(ous)!

[Arpege92]

"I've been struck by their total inability to do anything about anti-Americanism"



I've been struck by their total inability to do anything about anti-French! It's typical of the French to bad mouth America whenever the mood struck them but when the critisism is directed to them by us then the "FRENCH ATTITUDE" increases. Arrogant and ungreatful are the people of France and back stabbing is a perfected art over there.

[Robert_Paulson2]

"We are a medium-sized power, like Britain..."

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Salue Silvie....
... in your dreams, and hallucinagenic ones, I might add.

their self aggrandisement of their stature in the world and arrogant hubris... is almost amazing! Almost.

The cowards of dunkirk dare compare themselves to the "spines of steel brits?" Sick, twisted and not even laughably stupid assessment of their 'place' in the world's pecking order.

FRANCE is a NO POWER. Though being pursued by 16 other, wiser, more experienced democratic nations this week, in a quest to seek "reason" from them, was quite exciting for them. Some whores like being chased.

This Morning, we (the adults that ARE NATO) closed the door and the adults worked out the agreement, sans france and their stupid little squeeze box accordians...

Self marginalizing morons... and they think they "won" something!

... disdain perhaps but nothing else. COWARDS.

I like the idea that France may have won them selves the "no seat at the EU table award..." with this little venture of theirs.

[AnAmericanMother]

The real problem with the French is that anyone with any intelligence was beheaded during the revolution.

And anybody with any courage was slaughtered during the hopeless offensives of the First World War.

"O, my father - my brother - my uncle. O Verdun!"

[Barnacle]

Reports of White House Bible study sessions baffle and alarm a people for whom religion is purely a private matter. "This really doesn't play well, . . ."

Christianity is in a shambles in France. Atheism is rampant.

[Robert_Paulson2]

"It carries a whiff of fanaticism, dividing the world between those who are good and those who are evil. These are not categories that we feel at ease with."

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I wonder why that is?

[Robert_Paulson2]

OKAY... my french is rough... they are absolute idiots, jealous and stupid...
"don't buy their products?"

I am guessing, correctez moi, mon ami...

[NovemberCharlie]

Yes, well, I dislike seeing people beating up on the French for crimes of which they are actually innocent (it does happen, even with the French).

[JDGreen123]

Absolutely! France could not carry Britain's boots. The British have pummeled the French whenever the decadent frogs chose to do battle. The rest of the time, Britain has had to bail the frogs out of trouble. France rates maybe in the class of Portugal as a world power.

And while I'm at it, this has always puzzled me. People correctly denounce Hitler and condemn the Germans for the Nazi movement. Why is there not the same contempt for Napoleon. This crazed imbecile killed as many if not more people in his time. Yet, the French glorify Napoleon and honor his grave. A little double standard in my book.

[Robert_Paulson2]

haute means hot or modern or trendy...

school of modern studies... would be close.

[Robert_Paulson2]

is petain mean "whore"? or is that putain? I forget.